Lexington Books
Pages: 202
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-1-66691-522-8 • Hardback • November 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66691-523-5 • eBook • November 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Fran Leeper Buss, Ph.D. (1942–2022), was an oral historian, educator, and author of Memory, Meaning and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins.
Miriam Davidson is a journalist, author and editor whose works include Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement (1988), Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border (2000), and The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land (2021).
Part One: Memory
Chapter One
Redemption and Memory: Definitions
Chapter Two
The Complex Topic of Justice
Chapter Three
Beginnings
Chapter Four
Doing Oral History
Part Two: Trauma
Chapter Five
Trauma: Definitions
Chapter Six
Cultural Trauma: Witness and Recovery
Chapter Seven
Collective Trauma and Accompaniment of the Traumatized
Part Three: Testimony
Chapter Eight
Testimony: Definitions
Chapter Nine
Relationships in Testimony
Chapter Ten
Testifying, Silencing, and Using Symbols
Part Four: Justice
Chapter Eleven
Justice: Definitions
Chapter Twelve
Seeking Justice through Resistance
Chapter Thirteen
Alliances and Intersectionality
Chapter Fourteen
Teología de Conjunto
“A clear-eyed, passionate advocate for social justice, Fran Buss was driven to complete this vital work as her health failed. She explores the concept of ‘redemptive memory’ through decades of oral histories conducted with women survivors of violence, in order to acknowledge the courage, intentionality, and profound impact of their public testimonies. We need Fran Buss’s voice and these women’s testimonies now more than ever.”
— Susan Crane, University of Arizona